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also written on English plants. The plants of Ire- 

 land have been described by Threlkeld, Keogh, and 

 Smith; those of France, by Goiian, Gerard, Mag* 

 nol, Adanson, Balliard, Jussieu, la Marck, and 

 several late botanists; those of Szvitzerland, by 

 Haller ; of Holland, by Commelin and Boerhaave ; 

 oi Germany, by Crantz and Jacqiiin; oi Italy, hy 

 Micheli and Allioni ; of Spain, by the abbe Cava- 

 nilles ; of Russia, by Pallas ; of Denmark, with 

 great splendour, by Oeder, Muller, and their asso- 

 ciates; of Lapland, by I^innseus; of Siberia, by 

 Gmelin ; of Egypt and Palestine, by Celsius, Hasr 

 selquist, and others; of Amboyna, by Rumphiusj, 

 of Ceylon, by Burmann; of Coivmandel, by Rox- 

 burgh; of Japan and the Cape of Good Hope^ 

 by Koempfer and Thunberg ; of the Mauritius, 

 by Willemet ; of Cochin China, by Loureiro ; of 

 New Holland, by Smith; of the West-India 

 Islands, by Sloane, Browne, Houstoun, Plumier, 

 Jacquin, and Svvartz ; of particular parts of 

 North America, by Banister*, Vernon, Kreigf, 



* John Banister, an Englishman, who settled in Yirginia to- 

 ward the latter end of the seventeenth century, and devoted hinj- 

 self to the investigation of the plants of that part of America, 

 lie not only collected plants, but also described them, and him- 

 self drew the figures of the rare species. He became a victim to 

 his favourite pursuit. In one of his excursions for collecting 

 plants, he fell from the rocks and perished. His botanical friends 

 did honour to his memory, by calling a plants of the decandrous 

 class, Banisttria. 



t About the beginning of the eighteenth century, Wiljic.m 

 Vernon, an Englishman, and Davjd Kreig, a German physician, 

 led by their genius for botany, made a voyage to Murj/land ; where 

 they resided for a considerable time, and examined its vegetable 

 productions. They returned to Europe, after having collected au 

 Herbarium of several hundred uc^a and undescribcd plants. 



